A confusingly worded prompt on the EDD's biweekly certification questionnaire is leaving some unemployed Californians with their benefits stuck as "pending" for weeks. Every two weeks, those on ...

We’re over a year into a deadly pandemic that has cost hundreds of thousands of Californians their jobs, and caused claims for unemployment benefits to soar into the millions. President Biden signed ...

MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- The U.S. Department of Labor has agreed not to make workers repay benefits they received by mistake during the pandemic, as long as they were not obtained by fraud. However, the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — On Thursday, a Woodbridge man pled guilty to illegally obtaining pandemic unemployment benefits from the state of California. According to evidence, between Aug. 2020 and Sept. 28, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- With the economy almost fully reopened now, businesses are complaining that the state's unemployment benefits are so generous, it's keeping people from looking for work. So, ...

California lawmakers approved an emergency audit of the Employment Development Department. In a letter sent Thursday to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Chair Rudy Salas Jr., Democratic assembly ...

Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove asks a question to Nancy Farias, the newly appointed director of the California Employment Development Department, seen in video monitor, during a hearing of an ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA)-- Thousands of Californians who get their EDD benefits through Bank of America debit cards are struggling to get answers after the bank froze nearly 350,000 accounts due to ...

California's Employment Development Department has been facing a claim processing backlog since the start of the pandemic. The backlog has ebbed and flowed this year, but is currently more than 1.1 ...